Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it
Musk thanks Micron for chips, and builds a $55bn fab to replace it

Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “s…

Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers
Jensen Huang calls the AI jobs panic ‘complete nonsense’, and takes aim at his peers

Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …

47 World Cup Teams Fell Short. US Medicine Should Learn From Them

What can American medicine learn from the dozens of teams that didn’t win the World Cup in 2026? The answers include strategy, teamwork and leadership.

Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen
Apple is overhauling every Mac, and finally adding a touchscreen

Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autu…

AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year …

Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn

Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing to be. Now Khosla Ventures is raising money to do it again, at a scale it has never tried. The firm is in talks to gather as much as $…

A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon
A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligence related to Chinese influence and have found compell…

‘The Odyssey’ Is Drastically Outpacing Oppenheimer’s Box Office

The Odyssey is doing incredible numbers at the box office, and currently outpacing Oppenheimer on its way toward a billion.

Uber cuts 10% of customer-service jobs and, for the first time, blames AI
Uber cuts 10% of customer-service jobs and, for the first time, blames AI

Uber has trimmed its customer-service ranks and pointed at AI. The company cut 10% of jobs in its community operations team on Wednesday. It is part of a wider push to “simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI…

Google reveals it holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares after the IPO
Google reveals it holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares after the IPO

Google spent years as a low-key backer of SpaceX. This week it showed what that patience is worth. In a quarterly filing, Alphabet said its Google unit holds $94.1bn in SpaceX shares, following the rocket company’s record IPO. Google was an early inves…